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Vitamins and Minerals

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Learn about Vitamins and Minerals

Do a Scavenger Hunt around the room to learn more about vitamins and minerals.

+Vitamins

What are they?

What do they in our bodies?

How do we get them into our bodies?

What are some examples?

+Vitamins

Vitamins help the body to grow and develop normally.

Humans require 13 different vitamins each affecting the body in a different way.

+ 2 Kinds of Vitamins

Fat Soluble- Vitamins A, D, E, K

Can be stored in body; excess not excreted, potential for toxicity

Provided through dietary intake except for Vitamin D (“sunshine vitamin”

Water Soluble -Vitamin C, B Complex

Cannot be stored in body, provided by dietary intake

+Set up your notes as follows to provide notes on important vitamins:

Vitamin Why is it important? Where can you find it?

Vitamin A

Vitamin D

Vitamin E

Vitamin K

Vitamin C

(5) B Vitamins

+Minerals

What are they?

What do they in our bodies?

How do we get them into our bodies?

What are some examples?

+Minerals

Inorganic elements that help the body to perform chemical reactions

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Two main categories : The major minerals: body needs a

sufficient amount to be healthy calcium, phosphorus, magnesium,

sodium, potassium, and chloride. The trace minerals the body only needs

small amountsiron, zinc, iodine, copper, manganese,

fluoride, chromium, selenium, and molybdenum.

Minerals

+Set up your notes as follows to provide notes on important minerals:

Mineral Why is it important? Where can you find it?

Calcium

Phosphorous

Sodium

Potassium

Iron

Zinc

Iodine

Copper

+Vitamins and minerals scavenger hunt!

You and your group will fill out your notes by cruising through the room to find the purpose and source of each vitamin and mineral that I named.

Please use common sense and respect during this activity!

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Helps vision

Keeps skin healthy

Deficiency: Night

blindness Xerophthalmi

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Vitamin A aka Retinol

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Needed for strong teeth and bones

Regulates calcium and phosphorus metabolism

Vitamin D cholecalciferol

Deficiency:

Rickets – bone deformity

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Antioxidant role (prevents destruction of Vit. A & C)

Protects cell membranes from damage

Protects red blood cells (rbc)

Deficiency: Reduced # of RBC Nerve tissue

damage in infants

Vitamin E Tocopherol

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Helps in clotting blood

Found in green leafy vegetables

Vitamin K

Deficiency –

Bleeding caused by prolonged clotting time

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Helps keep gums, teeth, bones healthy

Needed for wound healing

Vitamin CVitamin C

Deficiency: Scurvy –

• swollen and bleeding gums

• loose teeth

• slow-healing wounds

Needed for healthy nerves

Helps cells use energy in foods

B1 Thiamin B2 Riboflavin

Helps cells use

energy in foods

Needed for red blood cells

Keeps nerves healthy

B3 Niacin B6 Pyridoxine

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Helps cells use energy in foods

Needed for formation of RBC

B12 Cobalamine

Deficiency – pernicious anemia

Calcium

Helps form strong bones and teeth

Deficiency:

– osteoporosis

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Needed for healthy nerve cells

Source: Nuts, wheat germ, brown rice, oats, barley, bananas, green leafy vegetables.

Helps build strong bones and teeth

Source: Brewer's yeast, milk, cheese, sardines.

MagnesiumPhosphorus

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Helps nerves send signals

Helps keep fluid in cells

Source: All fresh fruits and vegetables, potatoes, bananas, whole grains, sunflower seeds.

Helps nerves send signals

Helps keep fluid in cells

Source: table salt

PotassiumSodium

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Needed for tissue growth

Source: Nuts, seeds, beans, legumes, eggs, chicken, turkey, beef, lamb, wheat germ, shellfish, fish, oatmeal, baked potato, brown rice.

Helps red blood cells carry oxygen

Source: Wheat germ, dark green vegetables, liver, sardines, lean beef, chicken.

ZincIron

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Needed for healthy red blood cells

Boosts immunity

Source: Nuts, beans, peanuts, whole wheat bread, liver, lean beef

Needed by thyroid gland to control rate of energy used by cells

Sources: Iodized salt, fish, kelp, seaweed

CopperIodine

Vitamins and Minerals Exit Quiz

1. In the early 1900s, many children had a disease called rickets. Research showed that the children had a deficiency of a vitamin that is necessary for the proper formation of bones.

Which of these vitamins was lacking in the diets of these children?

A.vitamin A

B.vitamin C

C.vitamin D

D.vitamin K

+Vitamins and Minerals Exit Quiz

2. Which vitamin helps your blood to clot?

3. Which vitamin keeps your eyes healthy?